Couldn't help but notice on my way to my hectic job at D&D Advertising this morning that a pool hall called Shooters just opened up across the street from my apartment building in Chelsea. Cameron Diaz lives in nearby Walker Tower, but now I'm more interested in a possible Jake Hanson sighting ...
Turns out I'm not having an Ecstasy-related '90s hallucination. The Red Bull Music Academy is hosting an exhibition of by conceptual artist Mel Chin, who persuaded Aaron Spelling from 1995 to 1997 to allow him to provide artworks and props for the sudsy show’s apartment-complex set, with coded cultural messages on topics like reproductive rights, American foreign policy, alcoholism and sexual politics. (Huh?)
And all these years I thought the only message from "Melrose Place" was how to hide a giant zig-zag scar under your wig. Read
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Even if they did "jump the strawberry" on this week's episode (I fucking HATE sex scenes that involve fresh fruit!!!), Tom and Trina Decker (Grant Show and Lana Parrilla) of "Swingtown" are easily TV's sexiest (and funnest) couple. Now if CBS would just make a commitment to the show, even if it's an open relationship with another network ...
I've already got my DVR set to record Thursday's premiere episode of "Swingtown," CBS' new series about 1970s suburban Chicago swingers. The show's premise (newbies arrive to the neighborhood and realize the barbecues they're being invited to aren't quite like the ones they're used to) along with all of that paneling, avocado green appliances and a cast that includes a mustachioed Grant Show (Jake from "Melrose Place"), I think I've died and gone to TV heaven.
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Growing up in Madison Heights, Mich.
The Web leads to an unexpected return to a house I grew up in.
Carlsbad, Calif. (2008)
Go Behind the Music of my high-school band, A La Plage
Little Larry left us too soon.
With Debbie Harry
With Robert Buckley
With Roger Federer
With Ed Burns
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